The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the European climate change service of the EU, has published the new monthly bulletin on the state of the global climate. The data, processed thanks to the Era5 system that collects billions of satellite measurements, ships, planes and weather stations, offer a clear (and worrying) picture of what is happening to our planet.
March 2025 It has in fact ranked as the According to the hottest March ever on a global levelwith an average air temperature of 14.06 ° C.
This value is:
Only March 2024 was hotter (but just 0.08 ° C), while March 2016 slips to third place for a whisker (only 0.02 ° C less than 2025).
But the even more alarming figure is this: In the last 21 months, 20 times the global average temperature has exceeded pre-industrial levels by more than 1.5 ° C. A clear signal that the critical threshold established by the Paris agreements is increasingly close to being overpassed in a stable way.
Finally, the period between April 2024 and March 2025 was found:
A trend that speaks alone. And that reminds us how urgent it is to act, really.
The month of March 2025 was the hottest in Europe, highlighting once again how temperatures continue to beat the records. It was also a month with extremes of contrasting rainfall throughout Europe, with many areas that have always recorded the driest March and others on March more rainy for at least 47 years now, explains Samantha Burgess, strategic manager for the ECMWF climate.
